Word: beach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bodies were found sprawled in the mud of the town of 4,000, and one entire family of 13 was killed. Every house was damaged. Swirling water gouged into a cemetery, ripped open coffins and deposited their ghoulish contents in treetops. A brick building 200 yards from the beach, the Richelieu Apartments, was leveled to its foundation along with other steel and concrete buildings. In the rubble, 23 bodies were found, among them twelve people who, hours before, had ignored warnings to evacuate and gathered instead for a cozy hurricane party...
...been built along much of the Gulf Coast. The area depends on tourism, said George Metz of the Mississippi Division of Law Enforcement, and "they don't want to spoil the view by putting up a seawall." Some residents' apathy was shaken, however. Said a weary beach-house survivor: "From now on, when they say 'hurricane,' I'm heading north and I ain't gonna stop until I get to Memphis...
That recent claim by Miami Beach Mayor Jay Dermer did not endear him to the owners of the city's luxury hotels, who proudly advertise their beaches as private and even hire guards to chase away non-guests. Beachgoers in other parts of the U.S. may also be skeptical. As many of them have learned this summer, the beaches are not always open to all. In fact, more and more resort towns now boast beach laws that effectively bar anyone but a resident...
...Long Island's South Shore, many towns issue parking stickers for supposedly public beaches only to residents or those who rent local houses for the summer. In East Hampton, for example, any other visitor who wants to swim may have to park his car as far as a mile away and walk to the beach. In Massachusetts, the owner of the upland part of the beach may prevent anyone from crossing it to bathe there. That prerogative derives from a colonial ordinance of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1641), which authorized only fishermen and hunters to cross a private beach...
Curbing Coneys. Today, whenever a beach town becomes fashionable, the residents begin to worry about an invasion by strangers. Deal Police Chief John Rehm Jr. defends his community's bathing restrictions on the ground that they are necessary to prevent Deal from turning into "another Coney Island." Officials in Washington, D.C., note that a few states and towns have withdrawn applications for federal money to help buy beachfront property under the "Open Space" program. Reason: all such beaches must be open to the public...